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[โ€“] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Saw this post and all the redditors getting dreamy eyed at the idea of learning COBOL.

https://www.pcmag.com/articles/ibms-plan-to-update-cobol-with-watson

[โ€“] [email protected] 36 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The historic high salary for COBOL Devs etc is also partially due to them mostly being old and extremely experienced senior devs